Preventive and Containment Measures to Contain the COVID -19 Pandemic
On March 21, 2020, the Government issued the executive Decree No. 12 (“the Decree”), whereby it has established several measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of its most important aspects include:
- Purpose: the purpose of the Directive is ...
Work from home for Free Trade Zone Companies during National State of Emergency in Costa Rica for COVID-19
By circular DGA-006-2020 of March 19, 2020, the General Directorate of Customs authorized Free Trade Zone companies to take the following measures while the National Emergency Decree remains in force.
Transfer of computer equipment and furniture
- Transfer the necessary ...
Legal aspects related to Coronavirus in El Salvador
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- On March 18, 2020, decrees for the measures of the Economic Response and Relief Plan were submitted to the Legislative Assembly, pending their approval.
- This includes funding to create the $2 billion Emergency, Recovery and Economic Reconstruction Fund, ...
Prevention of COVID-19 in Guatemala
Last week Guatemala joined the list of countries that confirm the existence of the COVID-19 virus, making this situation an imminent call to all businessmen and leaders of institutions, including educational centers, to review and raise the ...
Immigration measures to reduce COVID-19 exposure in Costa Rica
The Government of Costa Rica, today 23rd of March 2020, announced stronger sanitary measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the country. In this sense, the following was expanded in terms of immigration measures: As of March 24, 2020, ...
Public Procurement: tenders in process and contracts that are in execution.
Due do the actual state of emergency declared by the Government and the corresponding guidelines that have been issued to prevent the Coronavirus (Covid-19) from spreading, its essential to know the main implications of this situation on tenders in process ...
Authorization of Extensions of Temporary Import Certificates, Tourist Category, by Emergency of COVID-19
Costa Rica´s General Directorate of Customs authorized the beneficiaries of the tourist category temporary importation regime to extend their temporary import certificates for the authorized period of their immigration status established by the General Directorate of Immigration and Foreigners (Guideline ...
